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There always seems to be the music. Whenever dictators pass away, it seems, state-controlled TV takes to the airwaves not with news reports but with music--as if a mellifluous melody could somehow soothe the anxieties of a leaderless populace, a commanderless army and a watching world. And so it was when Hafez Assad died last week. Syrian state media trumpeted classical music and koranic verses--a TV prayer vigil for the 69-year-old dictator. The cameras captured weeping members of the Syrian parliament mourning the onetime air force pilot who had taken a poor nation...
Such arguments undermine the government's case on its weakest leg: proving that consumers have somehow been hurt by Microsoft's actions. The more Microsoft can make its behavior seem proconsumer, the less appropriate the government's draconian remedy will appear--and the more likely the higher courts will toss the case back to Jackson for a less severe punishment...
...seconds on the clock, firing off a shot--swish!--holding the pose, wrist cocked, end of game, end of career. No one has his exact gifts, but we can all imagine being like him. The famous silhouette of M.J. soaring for a one-handed slam is somehow the right size and shape for us to slide our own image into...
Seen through Jim's eyes, everything that happens to him seems strange and somehow magical. On his first major journey, a trip in a truck with Uncle Al to South Carolina to see about buying some horses, Jim looks out at unfamiliar farmhouses and thinks, "People live here. They don't know who I am." Uncle Al makes a side trip to Myrtle Beach so that Jim can get his first look at the Atlantic: "He wished that just for a moment, until he grew used to the sight, the ocean would simply hold still. But the waves lined...
...intend no ethnic slurs. I mean to suggest that chauvinist exhibitions become, themselves, a form of ethnic slur; Americans blaring pride in their origins somehow manage to insult themselves, to proclaim the ugliest stereotypes. We may be a nation of immigrants, but if you spike the punchbowl with too much booze and consequent stupidity, the results tend to encourage, in other Americans, feelings of covert ethnic loathing. We need to find more civilized ethnic displays...